Not long ago I was just reorganising my bookshelf when I noticed a similar kind of pattern among thee books I had read. There are 12 books that had the name of the main character in their titles. and to top it all all of these where contemporary reads. Of course I do have a lot of classics with the similar pattern, starting from Jane Eyre, Emma, Oliver Twist to Shakespeare’s Othello, Macbeth and Julius Caeser. This gave me an idea to put together 15 books that have the main character’s name in the title. Scroll down to check it out.

• CIRCE by Madeline Miller – In the house of Helios, a daughter is born, a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess the power of witchcraft. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she crosses paths with many famous figures in all of mythology, including Daedalus and his son Icarus, Medea, and, Odysseus. Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

• DAISY JONES & THE SIX by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six: The band’s album Aurora came to define the rock ‘n’ roll era of the late seventies. But no one knows the reason behind the group’s split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July 12, 1979 . . . until now. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies.

• LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green – Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more. He heads off to the world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Nothing is ever the same.

• ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell – Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn’t stick out more if she tried. Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book – he thinks he’s made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other.

• THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J FIKRY by Gabrielle Zevin – As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love. A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died; his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history; and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. An unexpected arrival that gives A.J. the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew.

• THE ROSIE PROJECT by Graeme Simsion – Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. His lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. He concedes to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and embarks upon The Wife Project. In the evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don’s Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie.

• A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman – Ove is the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul.

• BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE by Fredrik Backman – Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. She is not one to judge others—no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be. Hidden inside the socially awkward, fussy busybody is a woman who has bigger dreams, and a warmer heart. When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and fends for herself in the town of Borg—she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. She finds herself drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. She’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?

• THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. She chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job. Monique’s husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. She is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles to her decision to leave show business, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn’s life unfolds—revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love—Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress.

• LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders – The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying.

• FINDING AUDREY by Sophie Kinsella – Audrey can’t leave the house. She can’t even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then her brother’s friend Linus stumbles into her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again – well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do the things she’d thought were too scary. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.

• ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman – Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living.

• WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE by Maria Semple – When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Where’d You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter’s love for her mother.

• RUBY by Cynthia Bond – The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty. Young Ruby, has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, she finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood.

• LEAH ON THE OFF BEAT by Becky Albertalli – Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting.

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